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Clinical Signs and Pathologic Lesions of Foot and Mouth Disease in Pigs, Korea (국내 발생 돼지 구제역의 임상증상, 육안병변 및 현미경적 병변)

  • 배유찬;윤순식;강경일;노인순;김희진;소병재;박중원;진영화;강문일
    • Journal of Veterinary Clinics
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.172-176
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    • 2004
  • We described the clinical signs, gross lesions, histopathological lesions, and electronmicroscopy of pig Foot-and-Mouth Disease cases which had occurred in 2002, Korea. Grossly affected pigs showed vesicles on snout, tongue, coronary band, and udder. Histoapthologically, severe intercellular edema and necrosis of prickle cells, and separation between epidermis and dermis were found on the mucosa of tongue and coronary band. And myocardial necrosis and mononuclear cells infiltration in myocardium were found. Electronmicroscopically numerous picornavirus particles(18∼22 nm in diameter) were found in the cytoplasm of prickle cells. By those results, we confirm that those cases were typical FMD cases.

Ultrastructure of virus particles in the liver of piglets infected with porcine enterovirus serotype 3 (Enterovirus 감염 돼지의 간에서 virus의 형태학적 관찰)

  • Shin, Tae-kyun;Lee, Cha-soo;Huh, Min-do
    • Korean Journal of Veterinary Research
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.207-210
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    • 1992
  • Oral infection of colostrum-deprived, neonatal piglets with porcine enterovirus serotype 3 can result in hepatic lesions with a short incubation period. In the thin section of the affected liver, crystalline arrays of virus particles characteristic of picornavirus were identified in the sinusoid endothelial cells and Kupffer cells. There were also cytoplasmic aggregates of electron- dense, virus-like particles in the hepatocytes. These findings suggest that porcine enterovirus serotype 3 has hepatotropism as well as neurotropism.

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Studies on the rabbit viral hepatitis I. Electron microscopic observation of the acute hepatic lesions in experimentally infected rabbit (토끼의 바이러스성(性) 간염(肝炎)에 관(關)한 연구(硏究) I. 실험적(實驗的) 감염토(感染兎)의 급성간염조직(急性肝炎組織)의 전자현미경적(電子顯微鏡的) 관찰(觀察))

  • Lee, Cha-soo;Park, Cheong-kyu
    • Korean Journal of Veterinary Research
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.531-540
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    • 1989
  • A new sudden death in rabbits appeared in China and Korea in 1984 and 1985, respectively, and was recognized to be an acute infectious disease caused by a virus. The disease was reported as a "new viral disease," and thereafter, a tentative name of "viral hemorrhagic disease", "hemorrhagic pneumonia" or "viral hemorrhagic pneumonia" has been described in the case reports. But authors had called the viral disease "rabbit viral hepatitis" due to picornavirus infection, because the principal lesion of the disease was an acute hepatitis. The purpose of this report is to describe the electron microscopic findings on the livers in experimentally infected rabbits. All the livers of the affected rabbits were shown to have degenerative changes of a type that is characteristic of acute hepatitis. In the liver cells, there were dilation of rER and mitochondria, vacuole formation of various sizes, and appearances of many virus-like particles in the vicinity of rER, granular bodies and crystalline arrays of viral particles in the cytoplasm with necrotic changes of the nucleus. Clusters of virus-like particles and viral crystals appeared in the cytoplasm of sinusoid endothelial cells and Kupffer's cells with morphological changes of organelles. Also viral crystals were demonstrated in the cytoplasm of macrophages among the liver cells. On the whole, the liver cells had many virus-like particles and a few crystalline arrays of viral particles. Therefore, this implies that the liver cells are the main site of the viral replication in inducing the viremia. It was concluded that the liver was the primary target organ of this viral disease, and the pathological and the ultrastructural evidence suggest that the virus may be belong to genus enterovirus.

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Culture of glial cells isolated from the spinal cord of demyelinating mice infected with Theiler's virus:An immunocytochemical study (Theiler's virus 에 감염된 마우스의 척수 신경교세포배양과 면역세포학적 관찰)

  • Shin, Tae-kyun
    • Korean Journal of Veterinary Research
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    • v.31 no.2
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    • pp.155-161
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    • 1991
  • The mechanisms of demyelination in Theiler's murine encephalomyelitis virus (TMEV)-induced chronic central nervous system(CNS) disease are still unclear and are probably multifactoral. This study was intended to culture spinal cord cells isolated from TMEV-induced demyelinating mice. By Percoll density centrifugation of enzymatically dissociated tissue, the cells were collected and then cultured on poly-L-lysine-coated plastic coverslips for 2 weeks. Oligodendrocytes, astrocytes and macrophages were identified using cell-type specific markers. Viral antigens were not present in oligodendrocytes and in astrocytes by double immunofluorescence. Affected mouse oligodendrocytes had less capacities of sheet formation and galactocerebroside immunoreactivity than those of control cell 3. These findings support the hypothesis that immune mediated mechanisms play an important role in the process of demyelination in this animal model.

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Structural Studies on IRES 4-2 Domain of Foot-and-mouth Disease Virus

  • Kim, Young-Mee;Yoo, Jun-Seok;Cheong, Hae-Kap;Lee, Chul-Hyun;Cheong, Chae-Joon
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetic Resonance Society
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.89-97
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    • 2003
  • Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) belongs to the aphthovirus genus within the picornavirus which has a single copy of a positive sense RNA. The translation initiation process of FMDV occurs by a cap-independent mechanism directed by a highly structured element (∼435 nt) termed an internal ribosome entry site (IRES). We have designed and prepared FMDV 4-2 RNA (28nt) by in vitro transcription. The 2D NMR data revealed that FMDV 4-2 IRES domain RNA has a flexible loop and bulge conformation. In further study, we need to make an isotope labeled RNA sample and conduct 3D NMR experiments to completely determine the 3D structure. This study may establish a new drug design strategy to treat foot-and mouth disease.

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Synthesis and Evaluation of Benzoquinolinone Derivatives as SARS-CoV 3CL Protease Inhibitors

  • Ahn, Tae-Young;Kuo, Chih-Jung;Liu, Hun-Ge;Ha, Deok-Chan;Liang, Po-Huang;Jung, Young-Sik
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.87-91
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    • 2010
  • For the discovery of new antivirals against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-coronavirus (SARS-CoV), we prepared and evaluated several benzoquinoline compounds as its 3C-like protease (3CLpro) inhibitors. Based on the computer modeling study that each of the two rigid benzoquinolinone and N-phenoltetrazole moieties of the compound 1 is bound to the S1 and S2 sites, respectively, of the SARS protease by forming H-bonds and hydrophobic interactions, we designed and synthesized alkylated benzoquinolines at both the sites of the hydroxyl groups. We found that the compound 2a showed five times higher inhibiting activity against the 3CLpro compared to the compound 1.

Disease Pattern Identification in Oriental Medicine and Herb Medicine treatment for Acute Hepatitis A with Jaundice : Case Series of 3 Patients (황달을 동반한 급성 A형 간염 환자 3예의 변증 분형과 인진(茵蔯)의 응용 치료)

  • Kim, Dong-Woung
    • Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.696-701
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    • 2010
  • Hepatitis A is acute hepatitis caused by the hepatitis A virus (HAV), HAV is a non-enveloped 27nm, heat-, acid, and ether-resistant RNA virus in the Picornavirus family. HAV is transmitted primarily through fecal-oral route and the incidence rate of hepatitis A is closely related to environmental hygiene and socioeconomic condition. Recent improvements in sanitation, public health policies, and socioeconomic development in South Korea have had great impact on the incidence of hepatitis A, which natural production of antibodies against HAV and the prevalence of HAV antibody has decreased. However, during the past ten years, symptomatic HAV infection substantially increased among juveniles and young adults in their twenties and thirties, and hepatitis A has become one of the most common acute hepatitis. Though there has been no report on treatment of hepatitis A with jaundice by oriental medicine in South Korea, many studies and case reports on treatment of icteric hepatitis of which main symptom is jaundice have been published in other countries. To treat patients diagnosed with hepatitis or suspected cases in oriental medicine hospitals, we need to have concerned about hepatitis A. This report is disease pattern identification in oriental medicine and treatments of 3 patients who were diagnosed with acute hepatitis A and treated in oriental medicine hospital.

Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Novel Benzimidazole Derivatives Bearing a Heterocyclic Ring at 4/5 Position

  • Wubulikasimu, Reyila;Yang, Yanbing;Xue, Fei;Luo, Xianjin;Shao, Dongping;Li, Yuhuan;Gao, Rongmei;Ye, Weidong
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.34 no.8
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    • pp.2297-2304
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    • 2013
  • A series of novel benzimidazole derivatives bearing a heterocyclic ring as oxadiazole (21-32), thiadiazole (33-34), triazole (35-36) were synthesized and evaluated for their activities against Coxsackie virus B3 and B6 in Vero cells. Compounds 21-26, 31-36 with moieties of 2'-pyridyl, 3'-pyridyl and 4'-pyridyl at the 2-position and oxadiazoles, thiadiazole, or triazole substituent at the 4- or 5-position generally displayed activities against CVB3 and CVB6. Especially compound 24 ($IC_{50}=1.08{\mu}g/mL$, SI = 61.7 against CVB3) was the promising candidate as lead compound for anti-enteroviral drug. It was observed in the incorporation of heterocyclic rings in benzimidazole at the 5-position could enhance their biological activities.

Encephalomyocarditis virus infection in pigs associated with reproductive failure (번식장애를 수반한 돼지의 뇌심근염 바이러스 감염증)

  • Park, Nam-yong;Chung, Chi-young;Ri, Chang-yeong;Kee, Hye-young;Bae, Seong-yeol;Lee, Bong-ju;Ha, Yong-kong;Yoon, Seog-min;Jung, Byung-tack;Kim, Dong-sung
    • Korean Journal of Veterinary Research
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.441-446
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    • 1990
  • Encephalomyocarditis virus infection in pigs, characterized by severe reproductive failure in sows and sudden death in less than 7 day-old-piglets, a period of several months from October to December of 1989, in Korea was occurred. The most outstanding gross lesions at necropsy were found in the heart which were consisted of pale, yellow brown necrotic foci of varying size in myocardium. In some cases, pulmonary edema and liver congestion were observed. Histopathology of the heart revealed the interstitial myocarditis, endocarditis and epicarditis with lymphocytic, plasmacytic and macrophage cell infiltration and, in some cases, calcification of the necrotic myocardial muscle fibers. In some cases of brain, the perivascular cuffing and glial nodules were observed. In the liver and the lacrimal gland varying degrees of multifocal necrosis were seen. The virus was isolated from the heart and the brain in a stillborn piglet and a mummified fetus. This outbreak represents the first case of encephalomyocarditis virus infection of pigs in Korea.

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